Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 has arrived

["Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks David for the information. This is interesting. I'll explore this.

On 1/25/07, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Recently I was dreaming about a possibility whereby the browser (for
> > e.g. IE) could have a hook to a 3rd party XSLT engine (like Saxon).
> > This way client side XSLT transformation could be done using any
> > suitable XSLT processor (e.g. Saxon)
>
> > I don't know how feasible this is. Probably, this requires Microsoft
> > (and other vendors) to provide some additional option(s) in IE.
>
> I think you'll find that IE has the hooks, it just needs someone to hook
> to them,
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/overview.asp
>
> ...
> A pluggable MIME filter is an asynchronous pluggable protocol that
> receives data through a stream, performs some operation on the data, and
> returns a data stream. The output data might be in a different format
> from the original stream.
>
>
>
>
> MathPlayer for example intercepts application/xhtml+xml documents that
> have mathml specified and transforms then to whatever IE needs for
> display (which incidentally is a way of getting IE to display xhtml)
> it doesn't use xslt to do the transform, but IE wouldn't mind if it did.
>
> So I think (in theory, never having tried) one could write a plugin that
> intercepted (say) application/xml documents that has an xml-stylesheet
> PI and did the specified transform using xslt2, returning the result to
> IE for rendering.
>
> David


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi